Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 4.
Published in final edited form as: J Poverty. 2010 Winter;14(4):369–381. doi: 10.1080/10875549.2010.517070

Table 3.

Comparison of the average prices of selected nutritionally-important foods: Latino and non-Latino neighborhoods (in U.S. Dollars)

Latino neighborhood Non-Latino neighborhood
Range ($) Mean ($) (SD) Range Mean ($) (SD) P-value
Low-fat (≤1%) milk, quart 0.95 – 1.29 1.08 (0.16) 0.80 – 0.99 0.93 (0.09) 0.081
Low-fat (≤1%) milk, ½ gallon 1.09 – 1.75 1.51 (0.19) 1.29 – 1.99 1.54 (0.20) 0.746
Low-fat (≤1%) milk, gallon 1.99 – 2.79 2.59 (0.40) 2.25 – 2.99 2.62 (0.31) 0.888
High-fiber bread (≥2g per slice) bread, 24oz 3.89 3.89 (n/a) 1.44 – 3.84 2.72 (0.94) 0.028
Orange, medium 0.33 – 0.75 0.54 (0.18) 0.32 – 0.50 0.43 (0.09) 0.267
Apple, medium 0.30 – 0.49 0.39 (0.07) 0.15 – 0.36 0.28 (0.08) 0.038
Cucumber, medium 0.49 – 0.59 0.54 (0.05) 0.33 – 0.49 0.39 (0.09) 0.041
Tomato, medium 0.11 – 0.40 0.33 (0.11) 0.24 – 0.99 0.51 (0.29) 0.315